Advocate photo by VERONICA DOMINACH --Richard Hart of Baton Rouge skins his rabbit during a taxidermy workshop where students were educated on the anatomy, sculpture and tanning of a rabbit at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, La. Sunday, April 6, 2014. Licensed taxidermist Mickey Alice Kwapis travels anywhere internationally to teach affordable, professional taxidermy classes.

Advocate photo by VERONICA DOMINACH --Taxidermist, Mickey Alice Kwapis explains about taxidermy during a workshop where students were educated on the anatomy, sculpture and tanning of a rabbit at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, La. Sunday, April 6, 2014. Licensed taxidermist Mickey Alice Kwapis travels anywhere internationally to teach affordable, professional taxidermy classes.

Advocate photo by VERONICA DOMINACH --From right, Caitlin Boyce, Amy Shutt, and Logan Shutt skin their rabbit during a taxidermy workshop where students were educated on the anatomy, sculpture and tanning of a rabbit at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, La. Sunday, April 6, 2014. Licensed taxidermist Mickey Alice Kwapis travels anywhere internationally to teach affordable, professional taxidermy classes.

Advocate photo by VERONICA DOMINACH --The finished product of a stuffed rabbit during a taxidermy workshop where students were educated on the anatomy, sculpture and tanning of a rabbit at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, La. Sunday, April 6, 2014. Licensed taxidermist Mickey Alice Kwapis travels anywhere internationally to teach affordable, professional taxidermy classes.

Advocate photo by VERONICA DOMINACH --Taxidermist, Mickey Alice Kwapis explains how to properly stuff a rabbit during a taxidermy workshop where students were educated on the anatomy, sculpture and tanning of a rabbit at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, La. Sunday, April 6, 2014. Licensed taxidermist Mickey Alice Kwapis travels anywhere internationally to teach affordable, professional taxidermy classes.

Advocate photo by VERONICA DOMINACH --GIna Pea, left, covers her rabbit skin with Borax to preserve the animal with during a taxidermy workshop where students were educated on the anatomy, sculpture and tanning of a rabbit at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, La. Sunday, April 6, 2014. Licensed taxidermist Mickey Alice Kwapis travels anywhere internationally to teach affordable, professional taxidermy classes.

Advocate photo by VERONICA DOMINACH --Richard Hart of Baton Rouge skins his rabbit during a taxidermy workshop where students were educated on the anatomy, sculpture and tanning of a rabbit at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, La. Sunday, April 6, 2014. Licensed taxidermist Mickey Alice Kwapis travels anywhere internationally to teach affordable, professional taxidermy classes.

Photos: ‘Ethical Taxidermy’ workshop at Audubon Zoo

Advocate photo by VERONICA DOMINACH --Richard Hart of Baton Rouge skins his rabbit during a taxidermy workshop where students were educated on the anatomy, sculpture and tanning of a rabbit at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, La. Sunday, April 6, 2014. Licensed taxidermist Mickey Alice Kwapis travels anywhere internationally to teach affordable, professional taxidermy classes.

Advocate photo by VERONICA DOMINACH --Taxidermist, Mickey Alice Kwapis explains about taxidermy during a workshop where students were educated on the anatomy, sculpture and tanning of a rabbit at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, La. Sunday, April 6, 2014. Licensed taxidermist Mickey Alice Kwapis travels anywhere internationally to teach affordable, professional taxidermy classes.

Advocate photo by VERONICA DOMINACH --From right, Caitlin Boyce, Amy Shutt, and Logan Shutt skin their rabbit during a taxidermy workshop where students were educated on the anatomy, sculpture and tanning of a rabbit at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, La. Sunday, April 6, 2014. Licensed taxidermist Mickey Alice Kwapis travels anywhere internationally to teach affordable, professional taxidermy classes.

Advocate photo by VERONICA DOMINACH --The finished product of a stuffed rabbit during a taxidermy workshop where students were educated on the anatomy, sculpture and tanning of a rabbit at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, La. Sunday, April 6, 2014. Licensed taxidermist Mickey Alice Kwapis travels anywhere internationally to teach affordable, professional taxidermy classes.

Advocate photo by VERONICA DOMINACH --Taxidermist, Mickey Alice Kwapis explains how to properly stuff a rabbit during a taxidermy workshop where students were educated on the anatomy, sculpture and tanning of a rabbit at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, La. Sunday, April 6, 2014. Licensed taxidermist Mickey Alice Kwapis travels anywhere internationally to teach affordable, professional taxidermy classes.

Advocate photo by VERONICA DOMINACH --GIna Pea, left, covers her rabbit skin with Borax to preserve the animal with during a taxidermy workshop where students were educated on the anatomy, sculpture and tanning of a rabbit at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, La. Sunday, April 6, 2014. Licensed taxidermist Mickey Alice Kwapis travels anywhere internationally to teach affordable, professional taxidermy classes.

Advocate photo by VERONICA DOMINACH --Richard Hart of Baton Rouge skins his rabbit during a taxidermy workshop where students were educated on the anatomy, sculpture and tanning of a rabbit at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, La. Sunday, April 6, 2014. Licensed taxidermist Mickey Alice Kwapis travels anywhere internationally to teach affordable, professional taxidermy classes.

The workshop, the second of two held over the weekend at the Audubon Zoo, was an educational program in “ethical taxidermy” facilitated by the Audubon Nature Institute.

During the three-hour class, attendees transformed a dead rabbit into a mounted trophy, received a crash course in animal anatomy and learned how to legally mount animals on their own.

Monica Ward, the school programs coordinator at Audubon, said the workshops were an extension of the zoo’s biofact library, which contains skulls, furs and other animal parts that often are loaned to teachers and educators.

Ward said the taxidermy program helps bring in a “younger, more artistic group” that the zoo typically doesn’t connect with.